Pond Fountain

[gramps50]

I fish a couple city park ponds that have a fountain in them, I assume to keep the water moving. My thoughts are that the water around the fountain would be the coolest and also hold the most oxagen so there should be fish around it. In both cases this doesn't seem to be the case. At least if they are there they are not biting.

One pond the water is clear, the other it's between murky and muddy but more on the murky side.

So what gives?

[mic]

Did you catch fish elsewhere? There may not be any structure to hold them.

[moguy1973]

I agree... One of the parks I fish at have 2 fountains in the pond, but the fountains actually float and are held in place by a cable on one side and the power cable for the pump on the other. So I assume there isn't anything below the fountain for the fish to hang out by so they find other structure in the pond.

[gramps50]

Did you catch fish elsewhere? There may not be any structure to hold them.

There are fish in both ponds, I have caught them but not around the fountain..

[gramps50]

Floating fountain now that never crossed my mind moguy, but does make sense. Now that you say that as I look back the fountains appear the same no matter what the water level.

[mic]

What I was trying to ask... was were this fish bitting elsewhere in the pond that day.

There are fish in both ponds, I have caught them around the fountain..

[gramps50]

What I was trying to ask... was were this fish bitting elsewhere in the pond that day.

The one pond the water temp is around 92 and no they weren't bitting anywhere. I fished the same pond last year with much better results. If I checked the water temp there last year at this time I don't remember what it was.

The one pond is about a acre & the other is around 2.5.

[mic]

Could just be they weren't biting the fountain had nothing to do with it good or bad.

[fishinwrench]

I rigged up a cool water sprinkler in my little miniature bluegill pond during the hottest days of Summer once, and the fish hated it.

You could throw a live grasshopper in there and they wouldn't even touch it.

Any other time a hopper or caterpillar wouldn't last 5 seconds.

[gramps50]

I have fished the acre pond a couple of times recently. I normally fish in the evening, the other night I went there a little earlier than normal, happened to cast out towards the fountain, got a bite. Threw out again, another bite. This went on for about a half hour the it just stopped. Went back last night, same thing.

So now I have a theory, they are hanging around there during the day, then as evening arrives they start moving around. Got to go back now and test this theory out more.